UN
Day
International
Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste
Events
of the day
World
Heart Day
Cardiovascular
diseases are the world’s largest killers,
claiming 17.1 million lives a year. Risk
factors for heart disease and stroke include
raised blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose
levels, smoking, inadequate intake of fruit
and vegetables, overweight, obesity and
physical inactivity. In
partnership with WHO, the World Heart Federation
organizes awareness events in more than
100 countries - including health checks,
organized walks, runs and fitness sessions,
public talks, stage shows, scientific forums,
exhibitions, concerts, carnivals and sports
tournaments.
522
BC – Darius I of Persia kills the Magian
usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king
of the Persian Empire.
480 BC – Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet
under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet
under Xerxes I.
61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his
third triumph for victories over the pirates
and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his
45th birthday.
1227 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor,
is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for
his failure to participate in the Crusades.
1364 – Battle of Auray: English forces defeat
the French in Brittany; end of the Breton
War of Succession.
1567 – At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests
the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn
for treason.
1650 – Henry Robinson opens his Office of
Addresses and Encounters in Threadneedle
Street, London.
1717 – An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala,
destroying much of the city's architecture
and making authorities consider moving the
capital to a different city.
1789 – The United States Department of War
first establishes a regular army with a
strength of several hundred men.
1789 – The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London,
later also known as the Met, is founded.
1848 – Battle of Pákozd: stalemate between
Hungarian and Croatian forces at Pákozd;
the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution
of 1848.
1850 – The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established
in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of
Chaffin's Farm is fought.
1885 – The first practical public electric
tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool,
England.
1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington
National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
1911 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman
Empire.
1918 – World War I, Battle of St. Quentin
Canal: The Hindenburg Line is broken by
Allied forces. Bulgaria signs an armistice.
1932 – Chaco War: Last day of the Battle
of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia.
1938 – Munich Agreement: Germany was given
permission from France, Italy, and Great
Britain to seize the territory of Sudetenland,
Czechoslovakia. The meeting occurred in
Munich, and leaders from neither the Soviet
Union nor Czechoslovakia attended.
1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kyiv,
Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins
the Babyn Yar massacre, according to the
Einsatzgruppen operational situation report.
1943 – World War II: U.S. General Dwight
D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro
Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal
Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta.
1949 – The Communist Party of China writes
the Common Programme for the future People's
Republic of China.
1951 – The first live sporting event seen
coast-to-coast in the United States, a college
football game between Duke and the University
of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
1954 – The convention establishing CERN
(the European Organization for Nuclear Research)
is signed.
1957 – 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive
material is released in an explosion at
the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
1960 – Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet
Union, disrupts a meeting of the United
Nations General Assembly with a number of
angry outbursts.
1962 – Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite,
is launched.
1963 – The second period of the Second Vatican
Council opens.
1964 – The Argentine comic strip Mafalda
is published for the first time.
1966 – The Chevrolet Camaro, originally
named Panther, is introduced.
1971 – Oman joins the Arab League.
1972 – Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes
diplomatic relations with the People's Republic
of China after breaking official ties with
the Republic of China.
1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes
the world's first black-owned-and-operated
television station.
1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first
pope to set foot on Irish soil with his
pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
1982 – The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders
begin when the first of seven individuals
dies in metropolitan Chicago.
1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26,
the return to flight mission, after the
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
1990 – Construction of the Washington National
Cathedral is completed.
1990 – The YF-22, which would later become
the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
1991 – Military coup in Haiti (1991 Haitian
coup d'état).
1992 – Brazilian President Fernando Collor
de Mello resigns.
1995 – The United States Navy disbands Fighter
Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the "Jolly
Rogers".
2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes
within four lunar distances of Earth.
2004 – The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry
SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight,
the first of two required to win the prize.
2006 – Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907
collides in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy
business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato
Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 total people,
and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
2007 – Calder Hall, the world's first commercial
nuclear power station, is demolished in
a controlled explosion.
2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman
Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow
Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points,
the largest single-day point loss in its
history.
2009 – An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near
the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Michaelmas, feast of the Archangels St.
Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael. One
of the four Quarter days in the Irish calendar.
(England and Ireland)
Rhipsime
September 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
International Coffee Day
Inventor's Day (Argentina)
Victory of Boquerón Day (Paraguay)
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